ISRO Computer Science (CSE) 2008 - Question 57

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Dirty bit for a page in a page table

  • A. helps avoid unnecessary writes on a paging device
  • B. helps maintain LRU information
  • C. allows only read on a page
  • D. None of the above

Answer: A. helps avoid unnecessary writes on a paging device

Explanation: Dirty bit indicates if a page has been modified. If not set, the page doesn't need to be written back to disk.

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